Olalekan Adetayo, AbujaThe Presidency on Thursday said the Federal Government has spent N49bn on the feeding of primary school pupils under the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, a component of the government’s Social Investment Programme, in the last two years. [READ ALSO] 2019: Be ready for war, Secondus tells defectors from APCUwais said 8, 596,340 pupils were currently being fed in 46,247 public primary schools in 24 states. She said, “We have created a value chain with significant economic benefits to the microeconomic development of the states. Uwais said the government has achieved 30 percent improvement in school enrollment in the country since the commencement of the programme. Other components of the SIP are N-Power, National Cash Transfer Project, and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme.

Source: Punch August 02, 2018 14:56 UTC